Re: Struggling with VirtualBox

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

walt schrieb:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Michael Neumann wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm still trying to get DragonFly reliably working on VirtualBox (just because
> > Qemu on my Ubuntu doesn't like to run with the
> > accelerator kqemu)...
>
> It would certainly be nice to get it working, but if all you want to do
> is run dragonfly then you can use kvm instead of qemu.  The "kqemu" module
> is now part of the linux kernel, named either kvm-intel or kvm-amd depending
> on your hardware.  The one caveat is that to benefit from the kernel module
> your CPU must have the hardware virtualization extensions.  Just like qemu
> (which is what kvm actually is) you can use it without the kernel module
> but it will run slower. I'm installing dragonfly right now using kvm :o)

For some reasons I couldn't get qemu working with kqemu under Linux
as I could easily with FreeBSD. Don't know the reason, as Linux is pretty new to me ;-)

Now I'm trying kvm and hey, it works! Thanks for the hint.

Michael